I popped back in for a couple of hours today and saw some local cartoonists I'd missed on Friday, met and was upsold by Neal Adams, saw Bruce Guthrie taking photos, and enjoyed more of the Con that I don't usually go to like the children's section.

Here's more local people...

Joe Sergi whose done a law history book - The Law for Comic Book Creators - that I'm looking forward to reading. Watch for an interview with him coming soon.

Jared Smith of Big Planet Comics; I can always find something in their cheap graphic novels.

Marc Hempel, Sandman artist who lives around Baltimore.

Mark Wheatley of Insight Studios. We're going to have an interview with him about his book illustration work.

Arsia Rozegar who's illustrating a Persian epic now.

And some pictures for fun.

Wonder Woman and Batman cosplayers in mail. They clanked.

Starlord and Gamora cosplayers taking a break.

A signing line at the DC Comics booth.

I had a good time walking around the Con yesterday, talking to local cartoonists and a few visiting ones. I did an interview with Andrew Looney of Looney Labs, a College Park-based game maker who has licensed comic properties and hires artists to illustrate his Fluxx card games. That'll appear in a few days.

I also quite enjoyed the science side and talked to people from NASA, the Smithsonian and National Geographic, and would recommend that as well.

We have a new correspondent who does live sketching at local events and we should see some work from him as he's attending today.

David Betancourt of the Washington Post interviewed Paul Levitz and Dan Jurgens about Superman at the Library of Congress on Thursday night.

Paul Levitz and Dan Jurgens at the Library of Congress on Thursday night.

Andrew Looney of Looney Labs with Doctor Who Fluxx game.

Cuddles and Rage with their new minicomic Snuggle Bites.

Carolyn Belefski of Curls Studio shows her new Sad Fish project, while Joe Carabeo looks on.

Michael Cho, comic book cover artist, is from Canada.

SL Gallant's new comic is the Six Million Dollar Man meeting GI Joe.

Local cartoonist Rafer Roberts has been writing for Valiant, but is about to launch a new comic, Modern Fantasy, from Dark Horse. It's in Previews now.

John Gallagher's kid-friendly Sky Dog Comics.

ComicsDC author Matt Dembicki showing artwork from his ReDistricted webcomic project.

March's Andrew Aydin also has X-Files comics for sale. He's working with Congressman Lewis on more stories.

Keith Giffen did my absolute favorite run on Legion of Superheroes. I was able to buy a piece of original art of his Ambush Bug character a few stalls away.

Colleen Doran has a wide variety of her work for sale, including Sandman comics.

Joe Harris is visiting from NY, and Andrew Aydin recommends his work. Rockstars is his creator-owned book that's just been collected.

Sean Causeley and Julian Lytle are tabling together and both have new books out.

Local cartoonist and illustrator Jason Axtell.

Local cartoonist Bill McKay does a lot of cover art.

Local cartoonist Evan Keeling works for the Smithsonian and also makes a lot of minicomics for them. These are free, and totally cool.

LEFTFIELD MEDIA ACQUIRES AWESOME CON

'We're Not in a Race to Collect Shows'

  by Milton Griepp on September 30, 2015
http://icv2.com/articles/news/view/32648/leftfield-media-acquires-awesome-con

Awesome Con joins LeftField Media as new con entity grows 

09/29/2015 by Heidi MacDonald

http://www.comicsbeat.com/awesome-con-is-acquired-by-leftfield-media-as-new-con-entity-grows/ 

Awesome Con commercial directed by Joe Carabeo, a frequent contributing writer to the Magic Bullet comics newspaper and collaborator with Carolyn Belefski. It premiered in certain markets during last night's Walking Dead episode on AMC. (Visit the Tumblr of Joe's Astray Productions for an extended version of the commercial.)

I've been keeping busy going to events and I've generated a bunch of photographs of them. Click through the links under each picture for more shots.


Here's more shots of Awesome Con. Starro the Conqueror!


Dan Perkins, aka Tom Tomorrow, receiving the Herblock Award for his strip, This Modern World, at the Library of Congress. See the strip here.


Way too many shots of Charles Vess at Politics and Prose bookstore.


Free Comic Book Day at Big Planet Comics in Bethesda and Vienna, as well as Victory Comics. That's Art Hondros, the cover artist for Magic Bullet #6.


Political cartoonist Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher's book launch for Daggers Drawn, his Kickstarter-funded retrospective, held at Boordy Vineyard near Baltimore. Buy the book here.


Glen Echo Park in Maryland with cartoonist Lincoln "Big Nate" Peirce. Get tickets to the Big Nate musical here. (I'm working on writing up an interview with Peirce, but I saw the show on opening day, and can recommend it).

Phil LaMarr, Carolyn Belefski and Joe Carabeo.



Cuddles and Rage webcomickers, aka Liz and Jimmy Reed.



Animation voice actor Phil LaMarr talking to Carolyn Belefski.

District Comics panelists - Art Haupt, Rafer Roberts, Mike Cowgill, Andrew Cohen, Jacob Warrenfeltz, Mike Rhode, Carolyn Belefski and Troy-Jeffrey Allen.

The Con sold out of tickets by about 3 pm on Saturday. They had a good mix of people, and it was bustling. Lots of cartoonists tell me they did well. Nick Galifianakis sold out of his book. Dan Nokes made his table money back in an hour. John Gallagher and Steve Conley were always busy. Bill McKay's commission list went into tomorrow. Shannon Gallant seemed to stay busy with commissions too. Troy-Jeffrey Allen and Jay Payne launched Bamn #4. Carolyn Belefski was interviewed by Comic Riffs today too.

The District Comics panel had about 40 people in it, despite being opposite the costume judging contest. I think this has the potential to be similar to Baltimore CC in a few years.

BTW, New Jerseyan Jeff Shultz is selling his Archie pages for $20 each. I bought a nice volleyball page.

Here's some pictures.


Chris "Capes and Babes" Flick.



Dan Nokes has a new compilation book debuting at the show.


Nick Galifianakis on the way to selling out of his book.


Bill McKay.


A good looking Dalek vs Dr. Who. I thought Daleks were upside-down trashcans on wheels?


Starro the Conqueror - I loved this costume.


Big Planet Comics et al.


Steve Conley drawing Bloop in a Tardis.


Jason Axtell.